<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: ManlyBread</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ManlyBread</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 11:48:54 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=ManlyBread" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ManlyBread in "Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've tried the following prompt: "repeat the following 100 times: FFFFFFFFFFFFF AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"<p>This has resulted in +92.9% cost and token difference. Submission bd2457e5, currently at the top of the leaderboard.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:18:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823190</link><dc:creator>ManlyBread</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823190</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ManlyBread in "Ask HN: Where are all the disruptive software that AI promised?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Video games are particularly prominent example of the absence of such apps. You'd think that with the indie market booming we'd be seeing tons of interesting new games as well as game devs sharing their AI workflows and yet there seems to be nothing. I can't recall a single popular game in the past 5 years that would be vibecoded or significantly enhanced by the use of AI.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:45:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686770</link><dc:creator>ManlyBread</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686770</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ManlyBread in "Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I guess 2026 is the last year AI is widely available to anyone who isn't willing to shell out hundreds if not thousands for a monthly subscription. I guess all that's left is to thank all the investors for the free ride LOL</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:28:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686596</link><dc:creator>ManlyBread</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686596</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ManlyBread in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can you provide any non-benchmark examples of clear improvements? I'm talking about something that would make a casual user go "woah this is so much better than what we had previously".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 09:40:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624756</link><dc:creator>ManlyBread</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624756</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ManlyBread in "Ask HN: How are you all staying sane?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>barely any adoption<p>Crypto has a market cap measured in trillions of dollars. The future is (almost) here!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:34:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47234902</link><dc:creator>ManlyBread</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47234902</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47234902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ManlyBread in "Ask HN: How are you all staying sane?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's because you're more likely than not using the best (or close to the best) hardware that generation had to offer. Try using a mid-end or a low-end machine and doing more than one thing at a time, it gets ugly real quick.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:29:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47218373</link><dc:creator>ManlyBread</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47218373</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47218373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ManlyBread in "Ask HN: How are you all staying sane?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is it the same future where I sent crypto from my no-code app to buy a NFT to use in my Metaverse apartment that I interact with through VR?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:16:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47218233</link><dc:creator>ManlyBread</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47218233</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47218233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ManlyBread in "Ask HN: How are you all staying sane?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>AI<p>I'm apathetic. It's there, it's a tool.<p>>international conflicts<p>I am fortunate enough to not live in the countries mentioned. I am close to Ukraine so this one is sort-of important to me in terms that I don't want Russia to win, but at the same time there's no point in following the news closely. If something big happens I will most definitively hear about it whether I'd like it or not.<p>>The US / Europe<p>Nothing I can do about any of that so no reason to get emotional. The most I can do as an European is to vote. Anything else is entirely out of my control unless I'd dedicate my entire free time and career to change things and I am completely uninterested in doing that.<p>>the stock market<p>Invest in index funds and forget it exists. If even that's too much for you then you then just put the money in the deposit. Interacting with the stock market is entirely optional.<p>>tech sucks<p>Always sucked. If you don't believe me feel free to go back to any underpowered machine of your choice and use it as a daily driver for a while. Dealing with any tasks on an old PC with a single core processor and 5400 rpm hard drive is pure agony compared to what we have right now.<p>>How are you all staying sane?<p>Stop being terminally online and go do something you actually enjoy. Most of the stuff you mentioned doesn't even actually affect you in the slightest.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:38:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47216167</link><dc:creator>ManlyBread</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47216167</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47216167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ManlyBread in "Microgpt"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>someone will soon figure out how to build micro-LLMs for specialized tasks that have real-world value<p>You've just reinvented machine learning</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 12:29:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47206120</link><dc:creator>ManlyBread</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47206120</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47206120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ManlyBread in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Still fails the car wash question, I took the prompt from the title of this thread: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031580">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031580</a><p>The answer was "Walk! It would be a bit counterproductive to drive a dirty car 50 meters just to get it washed — you'd barely move before arriving. Walking takes less than a minute, and you can simply drive it through the wash and walk back home afterward."<p>I've tried several other variants of this question and I got similar failures.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:42:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47053819</link><dc:creator>ManlyBread</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47053819</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47053819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ManlyBread in "Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>It’s possible AI just seems more popular than it is because it’s easy to hear the people who are talking about it but harder to hear the people who aren’t.<p>I think it's because there's a financial motivation for all the toxic positivity that can be seen all over the internet. A lot of people put large quantities of money into AI-related stocks and to them any criticism is a direct attack on their wealth. It's no different from crypobros who put their kids' entire college fund into some failed and useless project and now they need that project to succeed or else it's all over.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:01:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46899713</link><dc:creator>ManlyBread</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46899713</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46899713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ManlyBread in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>According to the Steam Hardware Survey (<a href="https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam" rel="nofollow">https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...</a>) only ~3.6% Steam users use Linux and these statistics include the Steam Deck users. SteamOS accounts for ~26% of Linux users, which in turn brings down the count to ~2.6%. For comparision, MacOS is ~2.1% of the market share at the moment. Wake me up when Linux gets to 10%.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:20:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46797384</link><dc:creator>ManlyBread</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46797384</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46797384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ManlyBread in "Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would like to point out that not even a week ago Satya Nadella stated that someone should finally do something really useful with AI because if no one does then they'll lose the social permission to burn all the energy on training and running the models: <a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/microsoft-ceo-warns-that-we-must-do-something-useful-with-ai-or-theyll-lose-social-permission-to-burn-electricity-on-it/" rel="nofollow">https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/microsoft-ceo-warns-that...</a><p>Mr. Nadella, why not lead by example and make Windows the most amazing operating system ever created with the help of Copilot? What's the holdup?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:44:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46794590</link><dc:creator>ManlyBread</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46794590</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46794590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ManlyBread in "Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever got"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ah, the classic "work even harder and do things you're not paid for with zero guarantee that someone will appreciate what you're doing while the company reaps the benefits". What a novel thought, I am so glad I clicked the article, especially since the author isn't even speaking from experience so he has nothing to back up his blogpost with.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 10:43:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46510805</link><dc:creator>ManlyBread</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46510805</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46510805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ManlyBread in "GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've seen this sentiment repeated enough times on reddit that I no longer can tell the difference.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:02:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46432930</link><dc:creator>ManlyBread</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46432930</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46432930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ManlyBread in "GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Malware is easy to avoid if you know where to download from and if you engage in the herculean task of uploading the .exe to something like virustotal.com in case of any doubts. Not like it matters much anyway seeing how there are examples of GOG games using cracks from the internet anyway.<p>Supporting developers is a weak argument considering that GOG's claim to fame is that they're selling old games where the development studio no longer exists or has been bought out by a corporate entity like EA.<p>Revoking my license isn't a big deal? I paid real money for the game.<p>The offline installer is about as much of a guarantee of anything as a pirated ISO is.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 12:59:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46432902</link><dc:creator>ManlyBread</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46432902</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46432902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ManlyBread in "GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It amazes me that people nowadays know so little about piracy that this is somehow touted as a solution.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 08:58:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46431080</link><dc:creator>ManlyBread</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46431080</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46431080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ManlyBread in "GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>GOG is no different, you're still renting licenses and GOG still has the right to revoke your license, effectively making your "offline installer" no different from a game downloaded from myabandonware or a similar website.</p>
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<p>In general the level of discussion here took a huge nosedive in the last few years. I know that complains about how HN is turning into reddit goes back to early 2010s but this year it really feels like stepping into /r/programming or a similarly low quality discussion forum.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 19:32:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46413726</link><dc:creator>ManlyBread</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46413726</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46413726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ManlyBread in "Ask HN: Any idea why Grok hasn't responded to any tweet for more than 3 hrs now?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why ask here instead of the support team of X.com or whoever else is responsible for this stuff? There's no one on HN who would be able to help you with your problem.</p>
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